• AdelleChattre
    +12

    No, you seem to have confused John Stewart’s brother for multiple stock exchanges, Wall Street banks and high-frequency traders openly operating with the knowledge and approval of the SEC and Congress. Yes, the New York Stock Exchange was part of the development of HFT over the past sixteen years, collocating equipment at high fees, but so was Nasdaq, and so were many people that did not share a mother with John Stewart. Your version of the story is so cartoonish you should’ve sensed that it was apocryphal. Really, one brother is a thieving banker and the other manipulates the media to cover for him? That didn’t strike you as a bit on-the-nose to be true?

    • germfree
      0

      Really, one brother is a thieving banker and the other manipulates the media to cover for him? That didn’t strike you as a bit on-the-nose to be true?

      No. It did not strike me as too cliched to be true. It sounds exactly like what I expect from both wall street and hollywood.

      Global financial theft and comedy that amounts to lies by omission. One brother among the most highly paid entertainers on the planet to cover over the crimes of one of the richest people on the planet.

      It's not like familial criminal conspiracies have never been hatched for fucks sake.

      • AdelleChattre
        +4

        So you'd rather get your news from Stormfront than The Daily Show. Got it.